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It should be noted that (as far as I know) none of those are actually fines. It's private companies that track down pirates, and they cannot give out fines. They send you a settlement proposal, saying either pay this or risk being sued.

This isn't just about microcontrollers that run software. There's shortages in MOSFETs, motor drivers, power regulation chips, you name it.

From what I remember, basically everything that isn't a phone or computer is on older process nodes that once were cutting edge. Some of these are so old that it doesn't make economic sense anymore to scale up capacity, or it might not even be possible anymore to easily do so.

As a result you have production lines that were reasonably well suited for demand pre-covid, now having to deal with everyone stocking up on way more parts than they need because they don't want to deal with shortages again.

According to the past incidents section, they marked the incident as resolved 10 minutes before you made this comment.

listed prices include VAT pretty much everywhere I've been to in the world, other than the US. If something says it costs €1 or £1 then you're paying €1 or £1 for it at the checkout.

One of the European sellers of the camera (Eleshop) sells a lens and 3d printed holder. I just bought the same lens and 3d printed a holder myself, from what I remember someone on the eevblog linked a suitable one.

I intentionally mentioned the on paper part because I can't attest to the absolute accuracy, but in the aspects that are easily comparable I would say it's way ahead of the FLIR C5 that cost 4x as much I use at work.

Both are used for diagnostics of electronics, so the resolution and framerate make a noticeable difference here. On top of that mine boots up and is ready to go in under 5 seconds, while the FLIR takes close to a minute to get ready for some reason.

I still find it expensive for a thermal imager. I personally bought a Chinese Guide PC210 for €216 shipped, and that includes 21% VAT, for a whole unit and not just a sensor. For another €15 I got a ZnSe lens for macro use.

Not only is it cheaper, on paper it's also much better:

  - 45 mK vs 50 mK thermal sensitivity  
  - ±2 °C or ±2% vs ±10°C or ±10% accuracy  
  - 256x192 vs 160x120 resolution  
  - 25 vs 8.7Hz framerate  
  - -20 to 550 °C vs -10 to 450 °C range

The kicker is that (being European) I can't even get a FLIR equivalent to some of these specs, as they would violate ITAR export restrictions.

The same way you write it for Windows and Linux, .NET has been cross platform for almost a decade

As a side note for people wondering why they have so much debt, it's mostly from their financing department. The list of most indebted companies is comprised of mostly car makers for that reason: VW, Ford, Toyota and BMW make up half the top 8.

A 20MPG (11.76 l/100km) car is twice as efficient as a 10MPG (23.52 l/100km) car though?

The issue is going from 30 to 20MPG is not the same change as going from 20 to 10MPG, where as the difference between 15 and 10, and 10 and 5 l/100km is the same absolute change.

Chips with some sort of neural network accelerator or related hardware.

To you and me it seems obvious, but to someone less familiar the rules clearly say using Github is prohibited, even if it is for the wrong reasons. At that point you should either get clarification of the rules, or take the risk and end up in the situation OP is in now.

The rules specifically namedrop Github:

> Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files, such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Replit, are NOT permitted.

With Jekyll being there, I can only assume the intention was to mention GitHub Pages as an example, but as it is the rules clearly say using GitHub is NOT permitted. They could've questioned this discrepancy before the competition while reading the rules before starting, and at the very least just not mention using GitHub.

On top of that, until yesterday they actually (accidentally) ran Jekyll during CI as well because it is hosted on GitHub pages: https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/commit/27834acf978a7d...

I would personally hazard the guess that for a significant portion of the people who use Arduino, it just means any board that is programmed in the Arduino framework. They have no real idea about or connection to the hardware that is running their code.

The notion that an Arduino has to be (just) an AVR chip is wrong though. The board in question here is an Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 (which doesn't even contain an AVR chip, the SAMD21 is a 32bit ARM Cortex M0) and you also have the Arduino 101 which has a x86 Intel Quark microcontroller. Most of the new Arduino products are using 32 bit ARM processors now.

Duplicating the design isn't super hard to do, there's reference schematics available that you can just copy. I suspect the real reason is that the QFN56 package of the RP2040 chip has a thermal pad below it that requires hot air to solder.

Just curious what made you come up with at least $30 per LED panel, as these should run you about $10 in bulk.

The company mentioned in the article (U-Blox) makes said GPS modules, however there are many chinese clones of these. Some rebranded, some passed off as legit ones. They'll mostly meet the spec and sometimes lack a rarely used feature that the original does have.

The same happens with microcontrollers. Take the STM32F103 from ST Micro, before the chip shortages this was a chip you could find in in heaps of random low cost electronics that required a bit of smarts. Same thing happens there, there are some chinese clones that are cheaper and almost perfect copies. The "legit" sellers will sell these as GD32F103 or CH32F103 for instance, but if you try to buy a genuine part from a less trusty source there's a decent chance you're paying the higher prices for the same chip, just someone laser marked it as a genuine one instead to make some profit.

Half the parts listed here you would probably find in a dishwasher or car radio as well, they're called jellybean parts.

It might not even mean they bought these parts from a legitimate source. They might have been reclaimed or salvaged from legitimate electronics, or they might even be counterfeit chips (which often come from Asia) that were labelled to look like the genuine part.

Ah, Aliexpress has a tendency to randomly select a language, there should be a language dropdown in the top right (or top left if it has decided on arabic)

I feel like one thing that should at least be mentioned is that when they uploaded the "White only" mod in september 2018, they also uploaded an equivalent "black only" mod on the same day, followed a few days later by a "yellow only" one after "popular request", something that arguable could be used by people who roleplay in rimworld

All contained basically the same few lines of code that skew the number distribution for the "RandomMelanin" method in the game.

All three are still available on the Steam workshop, although it seems like the functionality of all 3 mods was merged into the "White only" mod, which now provides a slider that lets you select the range instead of hardcoding it, and that is the only source code that remained on their github. This is the only mod of the three that was actively updated for new versions of the game so that has an impact on the statistics as well.

You don't have to understand Chinese to browse aliexpress, it's all in english

I think the sentence was intended to be read as OP being unable to find something that's both better than parsec and FOSS

> Only someone with access to DNS for the domain can create such a record.

That's why OP specified their DNS record. You buy/use a random domain name you own, point the A record at the IP you wish to attach, and then simply complete the TXT record verification since you have full control over the domain, while the booter resolves the A record to the true target.

Doesn't this device work the other way around? It's pretending to be a printer, which you can connect to an old computer that expects to see a printer on its parallel port.

What you're describing sounds more relevant for something that's adding a parallel port to a modern computer?

I'm pretty sure I've played VAC secured games with Wireshark open in the background many times without issue. In my experience VAC is pretty lenient on what you do outside of the game to begin with.

I did get shadowbanned from Modern Warfare (2019) for two weeks though. At first I couldn't figure out why my game suddenly would keep crashing on the main menu every time I started it. After a reboot of my PC it stopped crashing, but now the game was taking forever to find a match and when it finally did I got put in a lobby with high ping players from across the world, half of which were obviously cheating.

I managed to figure out that I had HxD (a hex editor) open in the background before I rebooted because I was messing around with the save files of another game. Simply having a process running called "hxd.exe" will cause the game to "crash" and shadowban you for a while. I verified this by renaming notepad to hxd.exe and observing the same thing.

This isn't the case anymore since version 1.19.1 [1], where "reported players can now be banned from online play and Realms after moderator review": https://i.redd.it/hoyh22jsh9791.png

[1]: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-1-19-1-pre...

Damaging the hardware is a bit of an overstatement. What people are calling fuses isn't really a fuse in the traditional sense. An eFuse usually is just write once memory. All the limiting features are implemented in software which reads out the state of this memory.

Bombarding something with radiation usually does not make it radioactive itself